Richmond Art Gallery
Richmond Art Gallery is a nationally recognized municipal gallery known for its diverse array of exhibitions featuring Canadian and international artists. View this video to find out more about the Richmond Art Gallery.
Eternal Return
Eternal Return
September 10, 2017 - November 19, 2017
In partnership with the Richmond Museum, the Richmond Art Gallery presents Eternal Return, an ambitious exhibition guest curated by Sunshine Frère presenting new works by five Vancouver-based artists: Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho and Anchi Lin. Each artist has selected artefacts from the Museum’s Migration Collection and developed works in direct dialogue with this eclectic array of historical objects. The products of this dialogue span a diverse range of media including performance, video, photography, sound, and sculpture. Artworks and the artefacts that inspired them will be on display in the gallery, allowing visitors to uncover their polymorphous histories.
This video features an interview with the curator, Sunshine Frère, and all five artists.
The Richmond Art Gallery received a Canada Council project grant as well as a Richmond 150 grant in the support of this exhibition. The Richmond Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the on-going support of the City of Richmond, Richmond Art Gallery Association, the BC Arts Council, and the Province of British Columbia.
For All is For Yourself
For All Is For Yourself
Cameron Cartiere and the chART Collective
September 12, 2015 to January 3, 2016
Public Art Facilitator Cameron Cartiere's and the chART collective: For All Is For Yourself explore increasing sustainable habitats for bees that counter recent decreasing bee numbers largely due to disease, parasites, pesticide use and loss of habitat . Cartiere's social practice includes her working with various Richmond communities to produce handmade seed paper (from recycled office paper) that is then laser cut into 10,000 bees that form the Gallery installation. In early December the public will be invited to return to the Gallery to take some of the bees away to plant in their own gardens – to create new bee friendly habitats while facilitating the nest to swarm out of the gallery. The remaining bees will re-appear in another exhibition at Kelowna Art Gallery in 2016.
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, Canada
richmondartgallery.org
Karen Tam: With wings like clouds hung from the sky
This spring, Richmond Art Gallery presents With wings like clouds hung from the sky, an installation by Montreal-based artist Karen Tam. Since 2014, Tam has researched artist Lee Nam: a Chinese immigrant to British Columbia in the early 20th century, and a friend and colleague of Canadian painter Emily Carr. At Richmond, Tam evokes the life of this artist and his influence on Carr’s approach to painting in the mid- 1930s.
Through a set of exhibitions and residencies at the Mendel Art Gallery (2014) and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2017) Tam has reimagined Lee’s painting studio in Victoria, BC’s Chinatown in the 1930s. For Tam’s Richmond exhibition, Lee’s painting studio connects lineages and kinships among Chinese, Hong Kongese, Taiwanese and Canadian ink brush practitioners including Qi Baishi, Sheila Chao, Yu Fei’an, Lui Luk Chun, Anna Wong, Ming Yeung, Jeannie Lee, Ping Ma, Lucy Feng, Harry Yu, Kileasa Wong, and Karen Tam’s mother, Tam Yuen Yin Law.
In early 2019, Tam made a research visit to the Lower Mainland to learn about and meet with the local ink brush community. The works she selected to include in this exhibition show direct connections to the teachers and stylistic legacies of both Lee Nam and Chinese painting in Canada. These beautiful and delicate paintings highlight trans-national lineages of artists and the contemporary work of Chinese- Canadian artists. Tam’s exhibition highlights the influences of East and West that shaped the context that Lee Nam and Emily Carr painted in, while also opening up a broader dialogue with immigrant artistic experience in Canada.
City as Site: Public Art in Richmond
City as Site: Public Art in Richmond
September 6 - October 26, 2014
City as Site: Public Art in Richmond is the first exhibition to highlight the City of Richmond’s Public Art Program, initiated in 1997 “to create a public art collection of the highest quality through a fair and open selection process advised by independent arms-length panels of art and design professionals and community input.” Curated by Richmond Art Gallery Director Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, the exhibition will feature several diverse public art projects representing the different ways public art is funded in Richmond – through civic funding, private development, community projects, and the program’s newer series of temporary projects and socially engaged artist performances. The exhibition features projects by Glen Andersen, Nicole Dextras, Janet Echelman, Jacqueline Metz and Nancy Chew, and Carlyn Yandle. In addition to including models, drawings, videos, large-scale photographs, and related information about the artists and their work, the exhibition will visually document many additional works of public art in the City.
This interview features Glen Andersen, Nicole Dextras, Jacqueline Metz, Nancy Chew, and Carlyn Yandle. To see an interview with Janet Echelman, visit
This video was produced by the Richmond Art Gallery as part of our education and public programming, with support from Metro Vancouver and the City of Richmond.
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, Canada
richmondartgallery.org
Greg Girard: Richmond/Kowloon
Greg Girard: Richmond/Kowloon
April 18 - June 28, 2015
Vancouver-based Greg Girard spent three decades working and living in Asia examining the social and physical transformations of some of its largest cities through his photographic work. Richmond/Kowloon includes photographs documenting Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong as well as a new body of photographic images of Richmond, BC and its residents.
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, Canada
richmondartgallery.org
Lucie Chan & Marigold Santos: ATTACHMENTS
Lucie Chan & Marigold Santos
ATTACHMENTS
June 27 - August 17, 2014
Storytelling through drawing is fundamental to the works in this exhibition by Lucie Chan and Marigold Santos. Creating surreal worlds of elaborate detail, their drawings and paintings explore notions of identity and place, cultural attachment and loss through the seemingly ordinary and fleeting to the supernatural. Lucie Chan is a Guyanese-Canadian artist based in Vancouver. Marigold Santos is an artist of Filipino descent currently living in Montreal.
This video was produced by the Richmond Art Gallery as part of our education and public programming, with support from Metro Vancouver and the City of Richmond.
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, Canada
richmondartgallery.org
Vancouver street walk, Ep 10 - Steveston, Richmond
A walk around the new Steveston waterfront community.
Keith Langergraber
Keith Langergraber:
Theatre of the Exploding Sun
February 8 - April 6, 2014
Theatre of the Exploding Sun is a multi-faceted project by Vancouver-based artist, Keith Langergraber, produced by the Kelowna Art Gallery in partnership with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge.
It focuses on a three-part film, Time Traveller Trilogy, completed in 2013, and also includes seven sculptures and two suites of drawings. The work is situated in Sci Fi culture and the film mimics the form of Sci Fi fan films. A complicated story weaves throughout the trilogy, with scenes shot in such varied locales as the Cayman Islands, the Yukon, Great Salt Lake in Utah, Lake Okanagan, Mono Lake in California, and Pavilion Lake in BC.
This video was produced by the Richmond Art Gallery as part of our education and public programming, with support from Metro Vancouver and the City of Richmond.
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, Canada
richmondartgallery.org
Murals of Richmond Artist Panel
Over the past decade, Richmond has seen an explosion of public artwork. Artist, muralist, and writer Mickael Broth has documented this phenomenon in his new book, Murals of Richmond. In this special edition banner lecture, Broth moderates a lively panel discussion about the transformative power of public art with Christina Wing Chow, Hamilton Glass, Andre Shank, and Ed Trask, who are among Richmond’s most talented mural artists.
Mickael Broth, also known as The Night Owl, has painted over two hundred public murals throughout Richmond, the United States and Europe since 2012. He was awarded a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship in 2008 for his gallery work and has shown widely around the United States. Broth serves on the board of directors for the RVA Street Art Festival and has been instrumental in the curatorial direction of the organization since its formation in 2012. In 2013, he published Gated Community: Graffiti and Incarceration, a memoir detailing his experiences with vandalism and jail. In 2017, he was awarded a commission by the City of Richmond for the creation of an 18-foot tall welded aluminum sculpture that will be installed in front of the Hull Street Library in Richmond’s Manchester neighborhood.
Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things
Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things
with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong
July 16, 2016 - October 2, 2016
Victoria-based artist Rick Leong discusses his interest in the evolution of traditional Chinese art forms, and the ways in which this has informed his latest body of work featured in the exhibition The Transformation of Things at the Richmond Art Gallery. Included in the exhibition are three Richmond artists, Winifred Lee (watercolour painting), Li Desheng (calligraphy) and Ping-Kwong Wong (ceramics) who were invited by the Gallery’s curator Nan Capogna and artist Rick Leong to participate. Employing images, symbols and forms drawn from their cultural traditions, their works also reveal changes over the years informed by their experiences immigrating and living in Canada.
This exhibition is supported by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, Canada
richmondartgallery.org
Interweavings
Interweavings
November 16, 2014 - January 11, 2015
Rick Adkins, Dempsey Bob, Joe David, Morgan Green, James Harry, Cody Lecoy, Latham Mack, Ariane Medley, Isabel Rorick, Tamara Skubovius, Marika Swan, Grace Williams, Xwalacktun, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
This interview features Xwalacktun, James Harry, and Morgan Green
Organized in partnership with the YVR Art Foundation, this exhibition highlights the significance of mentoring relationships in First Nations culture and explores how tradition informs artists’ works in contemporary and traditional contexts. The exhibition features paintings, woodcarving, weaving, and jewelry by selected emerging First Nations artists from British Columbia who have received scholarships from the Foundation. Included are works by their mentors who are prominent senior artists..
This video was produced by the Richmond Art Gallery as part of our education and public programming, with support from Metro Vancouver and the City of Richmond.
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, Canada
richmondartgallery.org
Cultural Conflation: Diyan Achjadi
Diyan Achjadi
Shawn Hunt
Cultural Conflation
October 15, 2016 - December 31, 2016
Artist Diyan Achjadi discusses the influences and ideas behind her work in the exhibition Cultural Conflation.
Cultural Conflation: Vancouver artists Diyan Achjadi and Shawn Hunt explore art forms that have been appropriated from other cultures, often resulting in a conflation of sources. Achjadi examines colonial histories and migration through her prints and drawings derived from a multitude of references that include 18th- and 19th-century porcelain paintings, textile designs, medieval bestiaries, chinoiserie motifs, Javanese batik patterns, and fragments of Dutch maps. By reordering these iconographic components in her meticulously made artworks Achjadi prompts a shifting of perspectives that encourage new readings of these multilayered works. Included in the exhibition are Achjadi’s new and older multi-media drawings and collages, lithographic prints, printed “toile” on Tyvek, and animations that have not been exhibited in western Canada.
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, Canada
richmondartgallery.org
Gu Xiong @ Richmond Art Gallery, Exhibition ' Waterscapes 2010
Gu Xiong
Exhibition Waterscapes
Richmond Art Gallery
September 17 -- November 14, 2010
Opening: Thursday September 16, 7--9 pm
Since the mid-19th century the Fraser and Yangtze rivers have connected migrants from around the world as China and Canada both became enmeshed in an emerging global economy. Starting with the migration of Chinese labourers to the Fraser River for the gold rush of 1858 and the late 19th century migration of Canadian missionaries to the Yangtze River region, these rivers have become over-written with histories, memories and the material traces of migration. In providing vital transit access between the Pacific Ocean and inland areas, these rivers can be understood as complex waterscapes in which uneven experiences of displacement, dispossession, and adaptation occur.
Filmed by Kevin Immanuel
Meet The Artist: Nicole Dextras
Nicole Dextras is an environmental artist working in a multitude of media including sculpture, interactive public installation and photography. In this video, Nicole talks about her work, including her most recent works which were featured in the City as Site: Public Art in Richmond exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery.
This video was produced by the Richmond Art Gallery as part of our education and public programming, with support from Metro Vancouver and the City of Richmond.
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, Canada
richmondartgallery.org
Beyond The Horizon
Beyond the Horizon
July 8, 2017 - August 20, 2017
Curator: Dr. Hilary Letwin
Beyond the Horizon is a unique exhibition showcasing selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Collection and a series of new works developed in response by students from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Youth Mentorship Program.
In this video, curator Dr. Hilary Letwin discusses the themes of the Beyond the Horizon exhibition and collection artworks, and each student artist describes their artwork and inspiration.
We acknowledge the generous support of the BC Arts Council Youth Engagement Grant.
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, Canada
richmondartgallery.org
Lyse Lemieux
Lyse Lemieux: A GIRL’S GOTTA DO
WHAT A GIRL’S GOTTA DO
April 23, 2016 - July 3, 2016
Vancouver-based artist Lyse Lemieux discusses her artwork, her process, and the inspiration behind the exhibition A GIRL’S GOTTA DO WHAT A GIRL’S GOTTA DO at the Richmond Art Gallery.
This exhibition is supported by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, Canada
richmondartgallery.org
Adad Hannah: The Decameron Retold
February 10, 2019 - April 20, 2019
Adad Hannah’s The Decameron Retold is a newly commissioned work by the Richmond Art Gallery. It is based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th century work, The Decameron, a collection of novellas comprised of one hundred tales told by ten young women and men sequestered in a villa outside of Florence to escape the Black Plague.
For the exhibition Hannah has created a series of video tableaux vivants using Boccaccio’s frame narrative as the departure point. Working with community members in front of and behind the camera, and incorporating local stories gathered through an open call, participants lay their own stories over The Decameron’s structure. This new narrative expands Hannah’s typical improvisational approach to production and community engagement.
This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter initiative. With this $35M initiative, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.
Peter Aspell
Peter Aspell: The Mad Alchemist of Colour
January 23 - April 3, 2016 at the Richmond Art Gallery
Curator: Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Director, Richmond Art Gallery
Peter Aspell: Saints and Sinners, Mystics and Madness
January 13 to March 26, 2016 at the West Vancouver Museum
Curator: Darrin Morrison, Director/Curator, West Vancouver Museum
Listen to curators Rachel Rosenfield Lafo and Darrin Morrison discuss the work of Peter Aspell, and share insights into the exhibitions Peter Aspell: The Mad Alchemist of Colour at the Richmond Art Gallery, and Peter Aspell: Saints and Sinners, Mystics and Madness at the West Vancouver Museum.
Photo of Peter Aspell in his studio by Jurgen Vogt, 1990.
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, Canada
richmondartgallery.org
Meryl McMaster: Confluence
Artist Meryl McMaster discusses her exhibition Confluence at the Richmond Art Gallery.
Meryl McMaster’s colour photographs explore the fluid domain of identity, and the possibilities of examining and revisioning the self and its representation. Placing her body centrally in front of the camera, she transforms her appearance, whether by layering photographic images onto her body or through elaborate costumes and props she creates and inhabits as alter egos. An artist of Plains Cree and Euro-Canadian heritage, McMaster explores the dimensions of her own sense of identity, and the complex history of the photographic representation of Indigenous peoples. The three bodies of work in Confluence collectively trace the evolution of McMaster’s practice, with its recurrent thematic threads.
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Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond BC, Canada.